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Daniel Seltzer's Chorus (the Greek group of elders has dwindled to a single tuxedoed commentator who bein harsh and unsparing tones that are properly sepulcomes a sort of auctor ex machina) introduces the play chral. As for the rest, Jane Quigley's nurse, though suffering from an unfeebled voice that sounds as if it has been produced by an excess of cotton, is quite wonderfully aged and querulous; and I would be unfeeling indeed if I failed to mention Theodore Kazanoff's First Guard, the very image of New York's Finest, with a wife and two kids...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Antigone | 7/13/1961 | See Source »

Atqui Musa illa vocata non audit; rogata tacet; virumque praeconio altiore dignum sermone pedestri laudandum relinquit. Ergo, utcunque possumus, virum libenter laudamus, qui, cum ingenii sui ope aeris thesaurum ingentem invenisset, Academiam suam divitiarum suarum amplitudine ornavit, iudice me (insusurrare mihi videtur Horatius), iudice me, "non sordidus auctor naturae verique." Quid autem de vivario illo dicam, aequoris Atlantici prope marginem ulteriorem condito, ubi maris immensi miracula minutis-sima ab hoc viro accuratissime examinantur, ubi oceani ipsius e penetralibus profundis rerum naturae veritas ipsa audacter extorquetur? Satis erit hodie de veritate illa dicere quad olim de Romanorum virtute dictum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alexander Agassiz Honored. | 3/2/1887 | See Source »

Nostrum flumen, sine dubia, est A unum, et porro melius quam Camus vel Isis, in antiquo mundo. Calculamus, facto, Europam est effetan; ut Bretus Hartius - auctor "Pagani Mongoliensis' - dicit, 'Caucasianus (Europiensis) exluditur." Haec est maxima et liberrima et grandiosissima Respublica que unquam existavit, et nostra Universitas potest facile flaggelare omnem creationem. Yoicks! (expresso Anglica...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Boom in Foreign Tongues. | 1/6/1887 | See Source »

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